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Article: A-Rod, Jeter, Nomar, Omar ... and Miguel Tejada are best all-around shortstops in majors; Oakland's All-Star middle infielder has performed at a level that places him among the elite players at his position.
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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MIGUEL TEJADA HAS greatness in him. He continues to let it out, every drop of it, and thus has become the centerpiece of the Oakland A's, a player who robs opponents of base hits, pitchers of their dignity and spectators of their breath.
Last August, Tejada became only the fifth shortstop in major league history to pile up as many as 100 RBI in three consecutive seasons
Tejada is the future, the essence of a year in which Oakland was in the hunt for the A.L. pennant. He has shown some of his greatness already, but only some. There is more waiting to be released, to be cultivated.
"Miggy's still young and still growing as a player," said ...